Top Cited Articles during 2008 by hep-ph

Top Cited Articles during 2008 by hep-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2008 cited by papers in the hep-ph archive

Keep in mind that citation counts can never be exact, there is something like a 5% error in most of these numbers. Please do not fret about number 32 versus 33, as this is often not a statistically significant difference. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Tue 13-Jan-2009. Further, the counts shown by the ranking are only the cites satisfying the criteria for that list. Actual citation numbers in the database may change as corrections are made and papers are added, the links will take you to the updated numbers. The lists, however, will not update.

  1. 1153
    Review of Particle Physics
    By Particle Data Group (C. Amsler et al.).
    Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B667:1,2008
    [407 Total citations in HEP]
    [32904 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
  2. 178
    New generation of parton distributions with uncertainties from global QCD analysis
    By J. Pumplin, D.R. Stump, J. Huston, H.L. Lai, Pavel M. Nadolsky, W.K. Tung (Michigan State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:012,2002 (arXiv: hep-ph/0201195)
    [1287 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 163
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.170:377,2007 (arXiv: astro-ph/0603449)
    [3259 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 158
    mu --> e gamma at a Rate of One Out of 1-Billion Muon Decays?
    By Peter Minkowski (Bern U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B67:421,1977
    [678 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 155
    Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Violation
    By Rabindra N. Mohapatra (City Coll., N.Y.), Goran Senjanovic (Maryland U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.44:912,1980
    [2157 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 155
    PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.), Stephen Mrenna, Peter Skands (Fermilab).
    Published in:JHEP 0605:026,2006 (arXiv: hep-ph/0603175)
    [425 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 148
    A Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:3370-3373,1999 (arXiv: hep-ph/9905221)
    [4033 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 129
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
    By WMAP Collaboration (E. Komatsu et al.).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0803.0547 [astro-ph])
    [695 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 116
    Search for the standard model Higgs boson at LEP
    By LEP Working Group for Higgs boson searches and ALEPH Collaboration and DELPHI Collaboration and L3 Collaboration and OPAL Collaboration (R. Barate et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B565:61-75,2003 (arXiv: hep-ex/0306033)
    [717 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 114
    Tri-bimaximal mixing and the neutrino oscillation data
    By P.F. Harrison (Queen Mary, U. of London), D.H. Perkins (Oxford U.), W.G. Scott (Rutherford).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B530:167,2002 (arXiv: hep-ph/0202074)
    [374 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 112
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9711200)
    [5817 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 109
    Baryogenesis Without Grand Unification
    By M. Fukugita (Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Kyoto), T. Yanagida (Tohoku U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B174:45,1986
    [1352 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 106
    QCD and Resonance Physics. Sum Rules
    By Mikhail A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, Valentin I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B147:385-447,1979
    [3465 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 104
    Status of global fits to neutrino oscillations
    By M. Maltoni (SUNY, Stony Brook), T. Schwetz (Munich, Tech. U.), M.A. Tortola, J.W.F. Valle (Valencia U., IFIC).
    Published in:New J.Phys.6:122,2004 (arXiv: hep-ph/0405172)
    [598 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 104
    A Supersymmetry primer
    By Stephen P. Martin (Michigan U.).
    HEP Record (arXiv: hep-ph/9709356)
    [698 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 100
    Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Particle Physics
    By Hans Peter Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.110:1-162,1984
    [3408 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 93
    CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction
    By Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
    Published in:Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973
    [5599 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 93
    The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B429:263-272,1998 (arXiv: hep-ph/9803315)
    [3635 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 92
    Unparticle physics
    By Howard Georgi (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.98:221601,2007 (arXiv: hep-ph/0703260)
    [234 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 91
    The Search for Supersymmetry: Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model
    By Howard E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), Gordon L. Kane (Michigan U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.117:75-263,1985
    [3302 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 89
    Chiral Perturbation Theory to One Loop
    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
    Published in:Annals Phys.158:142,1984
    [2398 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 87
    Neutrino Masses in SU(2) x U(1) Theories
    By J. Schechter, J.W.F. Valle (Syracuse U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D22:2227,1980
    [721 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 84
    Chiral Perturbation Theory: Expansions in the Mass of the Strange Quark
    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B250:465,1985
    [2424 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 83
    Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language
    By Guido Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977
    [3796 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 83
    Phenomenology with Massive Neutrinos
    By M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia (YITP, Stony Brook & ICREA, Barcelona & Barcelona U., ECM), Michele Maltoni (ICTP, Trieste & Madrid, Autonoma U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.460:1-129,2008 (arXiv:0704.1800 [hep-ph])
    [161 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 83
    The Pomeranchuk Singularity in Quantum Chromodynamics
    By I.I. Balitsky, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP).
    Published in:Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.28:822-829,1978, Yad.Fiz.28:1597-1611,1978
    [1932 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 80
    Averages of b-hadron properties at the end of 2006
    By Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) Collaboration (E. Barberio et al.).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0704.3575 [hep-ex])
    [233 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 80
    Exclusive Processes in Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics
    By G.Peter Lepage (Cornell U., LNS), Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D22:2157,1980
    [2253 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 80
    MadEvent: Automatic event generation with MadGraph
    By Fabio Maltoni, Tim Stelzer (Illinois U., Urbana).
    Published in:JHEP 0302:027,2003 (arXiv: hep-ph/0208156)
    [392 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 79
    CMS technical design report, volume II: Physics performance
    By CMS Collaboration (G.L. Bayatian et al.).
    Published in:J.Phys.G34:995-1579,2007
    [178 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 77
    The Pomeranchuk Singularity in Nonabelian Gauge Theories
    By E.A. Kuraev, L.N. Lipatov, Victor S. Fadin (Novosibirsk, IYF).
    Published in:Sov.Phys.JETP 45:199-204,1977, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.72:377-389,1977
    [1871 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 77
    Supersymmetric dark matter
    By Gerard Jungman (Syracuse U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Kim Griest (UC, San Diego).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.267:195-373,1996 (arXiv: hep-ph/9506380)
    [1112 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 75
    Electroweak symmetry breaking from dimensional deconstruction
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed, Andrew G. Cohen, Howard Georgi (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B513:232-240,2001 (arXiv: hep-ph/0105239)
    [550 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 75
    Anti-de Sitter space and holography
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:253-291,1998 (arXiv: hep-th/9802150)
    [3904 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 73
    HERWIG 6: An Event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes)
    By G. Corcella (Rochester U.), I.G. Knowles (Edinburgh U.), G. Marchesini (Milan Bicocca U. & INFN, Milan), S. Moretti (CERN), K. Odagiri (KEK, Tsukuba), P. Richardson (Cambridge U., DAMTP), M.H. Seymour (Rutherford), B.R. Webber (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0101:010,2001 (arXiv: hep-ph/0011363)
    [719 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 73
    The Snowmass points and slopes: Benchmarks for SUSY searches
    By B.C. Allanach, M. Battaglia, G.A. Blair, Marcela S. Carena, A. De Roeck, A. Dedes, A. Djouadi, D. Gerdes, N. Ghodbane, John F. Gunion, H.E. Haber, Tao Han, S. Heinemeyer, J.L. Hewett, I. Hinchliffe, J. Kalinowski, H.E. Logan, S.P. Martin, H.U. Martyn, K.T. Matchev, S. Moretti, F. Moortgat, Gudrid A. Moortgat-Pick, S. Mrenna, U. Nauenberg, Y. Okada, K.A. Olive, W. Porod, M. Schmitt, S. Su, C.E.M. Wagner, G. Weiglein, J. Wells, G.W. Wilson, P. Zerwas (CERN & Royal Holloway, U. of London & Fermilab & Bonn U. & Montpellier U. & Michigan U. & DESY & UC, Davis & UC, Santa Cruz & Wisconsin U., Madison & Brookhaven & SLAC & LBL, Berkeley & Warsaw U. & Northern Illinois U. & Aachen, Tech. Hochsch. & Florida U. & Durham U., IPPP & Antwerp U. & Colorado U. & KEK, Tsukuba & Minnesota U. & Vienna, OAW & Zurich U. & Northwestern U. & Caltech & Argonne & Chicago U., EFI & Kansas U.).
    Published in:Eur.Phys.J.C25:113-123,2002 (arXiv: hep-ph/0202233)
    [474 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 72
    Semihard Processes in QCD
    By L.V. Gribov, E.M. Levin, M.G. Ryskin (St. Petersburg, INP).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.100:1-150,1983
    [1663 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 71
    First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory
    By XENON Collaboration (J. Angle et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.100:021303,2008 (arXiv:0706.0039 [astro-ph])
    [168 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 71
    Deep inelastic e p scattering in perturbation theory
    By V.N. Gribov, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP).
    Published in:Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.15:438-450,1972, Yad.Fiz.15:781-807,1972
    [1929 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 71
    Neutrino Masses and Mixings in Gauge Models with Spontaneous Parity Violation
    By Rabindra N. Mohapatra (City Coll., N.Y.), Goran Senjanovic (Fermilab & Maryland U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D23:165,1981
    [1065 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 70
    Particle dark matter: Evidence, candidates and constraints
    By Gianfranco Bertone (Fermilab), Dan Hooper, Joseph Silk (Oxford U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.405:279-390,2005 (arXiv: hep-ph/0404175)
    [517 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 70
    Out of this world supersymmetry breaking
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B557:79-118,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9810155)
    [836 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 70
    Operator expansion for high-energy scattering
    By I. Balitsky (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B463:99-160,1996 (arXiv: hep-ph/9509348)
    [608 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 69
    Gauge theory correlators from noncritical string theory
    By S.S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B428:105-114,1998 (arXiv: hep-th/9802109)
    [3437 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 69
    Another odd thing about unparticle physics
    By Howard Georgi (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B650:275-278,2007 (arXiv:0704.2457 [hep-ph])
    [184 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 68
    Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays
    By Nicola Cabibbo (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.10:531-533,1963
    [2840 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 68
    Estimate of B(anti-B ---> X(s) gamma) at O(alpha(s)**2)
    By M. Misiak (Warsaw U. & CERN), H.M. Asatrian, K. Bieri, M. Czakon, A. Czarnecki, T. Ewerth, A. Ferroglia, P. Gambino, M. Gorbahn, C. Greub, U. Haisch, A. Hovhannisyan, T. Hurth, A. Mitov, V. Poghosyan, M. Slusarczyk, M. Steinhauser (CERN & Yerevan Phys. Inst. & Bern U. & Wurzburg U. & Alberta U. & Freiburg U. & INFN, Turin & Turin U. & Karlsruhe U., TTP & Zurich U. & SLAC & DESY).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.98:022002,2007 (arXiv: hep-ph/0609232)
    [182 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 68
    Theories with gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking
    By G.F. Giudice, R. Rattazzi (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.322:419-499,1999 (arXiv: hep-ph/9801271)
    [669 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 67
    Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. 1.
    By Yoichiro Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.122:345-358,1961
    [3048 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 67
    The Littlest Higgs
    By N. Arkani-Hamed (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.), A.G. Cohen (Boston U.), E. Katz, A.E. Nelson (Washington U., Seattle).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:034,2002 (arXiv: hep-ph/0206021)
    [448 Total citations in HEP]